Designing Motherhood includes over 100 objects spanning medical devices to depictions of laboring women in films.
MIT Press
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How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze
Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.
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The Stunning Scope of Carrie Mae Weems’s Vision
A new book offers a deep dive into Weems’s influential career.
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A Deep, Feminist Dive Into Autotheory
Lauren Fournier considers what it means, in the bell hooks sense, to bring everyday life to theory.
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Where Does a Work of Art Belong?
Like the international financial markets, the art museum is a controlling Western institution.
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Gabriel Orozco’s Journals Invite Readers to Retrace His Steps
What makes Written Matter different from some artists’ journals is that one need not be familiar with Orozco — or even the legacy of Conceptualism to which his work is tethered — to enjoy it.
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Ana Mendieta, a Feminist Pioneer, in a New Light
In Radical Virtuosity, Genevieve Hyacinthe brilliantly reframes Mendieta’s celebrated works, yet for a book so rooted in race, the final analysis feels only half-full.
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“Why Is Television Dumb?” and Other Musings by Nam June Paik
In the recently published collection We Are in Open Circuits, Paik’s prescient critiques of image consumption suggest he probably would’ve been great at Twitter.
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Elizabeth Otto Unlocks History in Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics
Her recent book offers an investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus’s signature sleek surfaces and austere structures.
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The Liberating Power of Conversations About Art
When I got to know Bill Berkson, my life as a writer was completely changed.
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The Horrors of the Atomic Age Through Artists’ Eyes
The art and literature in Invisible Colors turn our gaze toward the blinding fury of the atom’s explosion in its singular purpose to raze and slaughter.
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How Our Relationship to Books Has Changed Throughout History
Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book traces how the nature of reading changed from an activity practiced by a small number of scholars to a pastime of the masses.